#298: Hollywood Horrors: Mysterious Origins Of The Blob

Published: July 17, 2023, 7:30 a.m.

\u201cIt crawls.... It creeps.... It eats you alive! Indescribable... indestructible... insatiable! Bloated with the blood of its victims! Nothing Can Stop It!\u201d These are just a fistful of the gloriously hyperbolic taglines used to market one of the 50s\u2019 most memorable creature features\u2014\u201cThe Blob\u201d\u2014but while nearly every movie fan is at least familiar with this amorphous, undulating mega-mass from another world, very few are aware of the fact that the likely genesis for this sinister, flesh-sucking, fiend is an incident that took place in Philadelphia in the fall of 1950.

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